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Introduction to Drawing in Windows
William T. Block
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A simple introduction to using DCs to draw in Windows
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William T. Block
Software Developer (Senior)
Retired
United States
I am currently retired, but spent the last 40 years of my career writing software for MS-DOS and Windows (starting with Windows 1.0).
My first experience with software was writing assembly code for the Motorola 6800.
During the S100 bus days, I wrote 8080 assembly and Basic.
With the introduction of the IBM PC I wrote in Borland Pascal for MS-DOS.
When Microsoft introduced Windows 1.0 I started writing in C code.
For the majority of my career, I did development in C++ starting with Visual C++ 1.0.
Some of my development was in .NET, but it never appealed to me like C++.
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